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A Georgia teenager has pleaded guilty in the Apalachee High School shooting, sparing survivors from testifying, while Bangladesh's president has resigned as the country navigates a fragile political transition.

We'll also cover a growing legal clash over federal disaster funding, rising borrowing costs, and why measles is making an alarming comeback across the U.S.

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Colt Gray, 16, changed his plea to guilty at a Georgia hearing that jumped straight from arraignment to sentencing. That move cancels an October trial that would have put Apalachee High survivors on the stand, and it closes the criminal case against the teenager who opened fire at his school last year.

The hearing rolled directly into sentencing arguments instead of the long proceeding prosecutors had prepared for. Gray's father faces his own case over how the weapon was obtained — one of the first prosecutions in the country testing parental liability for a school shooting.

Bangladesh's president, Mohammed Shahabuddin, stepped down, severing one of the last official links to ousted premier Sheikh Hasina. Once a close Hasina ally, his exit marks another turn in the country's long political reckoning. The resignation clears the way for a leadership reshuffle in Dhaka.

The move follows months of instability since Hasina's government collapsed. Analysts say it hands the interim administration more room to reset the country's institutions. Bangladeshis are watching to see whether the change brings stability or simply the next round of jockeying.

UConn's Dan Hurley says college basketball's nonconference schedule is better now than it has ever been, driven by NIL money, the transfer portal, and a selection committee that rewards teams for scheduling up. The two-time defending champ has loaded November and December with marquee opponents.

Hurley argues marquee matchups are a recruiting and retention necessity now, not a luxury, in a sport where rosters turn over every year. The old model — soft cupcakes before conference play — is going extinct fast.

Karim A. A. Khan was removed as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court over sexual misconduct allegations that have shadowed the tribunal for years. His exit leaves the court's biggest cases — including warrants against Israeli and Russian leaders — with a caretaker deputy.

Beijing banned rare earth shipments to 14 European companies in chemicals processing, electric motors, and defense, extending the export-control playbook it has already used on Washington. Europe imports roughly 98% of its rare earths from China, so the ban bites immediately.

Four Palestinians and two Israelis were killed in a shooting near the West Bank village of Tell, one of the deadliest single incidents in the territory in months. Israeli and Palestinian officials are offering conflicting accounts of who fired first.

Federal officials acknowledged in court filings that they killed billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on whether they backed President Trump in 2024. The admission came out of ongoing litigation brought by the affected states.

A coalition of 25 Democratic attorneys general, led by California's Rob Bonta, sued the Trump administration over what they call unlawful political conditions on federal disaster grants. They want the rules struck down before hurricane season peaks.

Democratic secretaries of state and attorneys general are stepping up contingency planning for possible federal interference in the 2026 midterms — voter roll disputes, National Guard deployments near polls, the works. State officials describe federal-state coordination heading into November as unusually strained.

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Paramount agreed to push its Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition as late as June 2027, extending the original September close while legal challenges grind through court. The company called the delay a "significant win" that keeps the deal alive.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to its highest level of Trump's second term, pushed up by the Iran war, rising government spending, and AI-driven growth bets. Higher long-term rates hit mortgages, auto loans, and corporate borrowing directly.

Wall Street heads into a brutal week with Big Tech earnings and a Fed decision stacked into five trading days. Options markets are already pricing outsized moves for the S&P 500.

Researchers spotted a sugar molecule floating in the interstellar medium for the first time. Sugars form the backbone of DNA and RNA and drive core metabolism — which is to say, the finding lands squarely on the chemistry behind life's origins.

New PET brain scans show some of long COVID's most disabling symptoms — exhaustion, brain fog, memory loss, motivational collapse — track with damage to the brain's dopamine system. It's the first concrete neurological target for treatments that have been guesswork so far.

Archaeologists in Pompeii pieced together roughly 1,000 fragments to restore a rare painted ceiling depicting the myth of Dionysus and Ariadne. It's one of the most complete Roman ceiling artworks ever pulled from the buried city.

LeBron James is joining the Philadelphia 76ers for his record-extending 24th NBA season, ending eight years with the Lakers. No other player has ever suited up for more than 22.

Michael Kim drained a 24-foot birdie on 18 at the 3M Open to shoot 59 — only the 15th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history. He takes a commanding lead into the weekend in Minnesota.

Former Cowboys quarterback and CBS analyst Tony Romo was arrested for driving intoxicated outside Milwaukee on Thursday night after failing field sobriety tests. He was released pending a court date.

Chuck Russell, who directed The Mask, Eraser, The Blob, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, died Wednesday at his home near San Diego at 74. His films defined a specific late-'80s and '90s vein of genre cinema — horror, effects, comedy, all in one bag.

Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon, whose late-'50s and '60s hits included "Palisades Park" and "Tallahassee Lassie," died at 89. "Tallahassee Lassie" started as a poem written by his mother.

Chris Brown pleaded guilty to affray in a London court over a 2023 attack on a music producer at a nightclub, avoiding a trial on that charge while prosecutors dropped a more serious count. He is scheduled to be sentenced in October and remains free to continue his planned world tour in the meantime.

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What it is: The United States has already logged more measles cases in 2026 than in all of 2025, according to CDC data, marking the highest level the country has seen in decades. A disease that public-health officials once declared eliminated on American soil is now spreading through communities faster than at any point in a generation. The tally has climbed steadily through the spring and summer, and health agencies expect it to keep rising before the year is out.

The detail: The surge is being driven largely by clusters in under-vaccinated communities, where falling immunization rates have eroded the herd immunity that long kept outbreaks small and contained. Measles is among the most contagious diseases known to medicine, and a single case can spark dozens more when it lands in a pocket of unvaccinated people. Many of the year's outbreaks have been seeded by international travel, then amplified locally once the virus finds a foothold.

Why it matters: The US formally declared measles eliminated in 2000, and losing that status would be a symbolic and practical blow to a public-health system already stretched thin. Beyond the milestone, measles can cause severe complications in young children, from pneumonia to brain swelling, and rising case counts mean rising odds of hospitalizations and preventable deaths. Each new cluster also drains local resources, forcing health departments to divert staff toward contact tracing and emergency vaccination drives.

What to watch: Whether federal and state officials can push vaccination rates back up before the outbreaks entrench themselves will shape the rest of the year. Health departments are racing to close immunization gaps, but shifting attitudes toward vaccines make the task harder than it was the last time measles threatened a comeback. The next few months of case data will reveal whether 2026 is a spike or the start of a longer slide.

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- Marine biologists off Baja California filmed one orca teeing up a sunfish for another to obliterate at full speed. Scientists say it's either coordinated hunting or, more unsettlingly, entertainment.

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